Do fair value adjustments influence dividend policy?

Accounting and Business Research

Volumn 41, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 51-68

  Goncharov, Igor ^a,b   Van Triest, Sander ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b WHU OTTO BEISHEIM SCHOOL OF MANAGEMENT   (Germany)

Author keywords

Dividend policy; Earnings persistence; Fair value accounting

Indexed keywords

EID: 79955079647     PISSN: 00014788     EISSN: 21594260     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00014788.2011.549637     Document Type: Article

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